Yuzhu has been living a life of luxury and good food. After the few of them walked back to the mansion, the kitchen had already prepared all the ingredients for mutton-shabu-shabu.
After all, Zha Siting was the gentleman. Yuzhu originally planned to serve tea and snacks first, chat for a few words, go through the formalities, and then cook the mutton.
Who would have thought that not only did Cha Siting not act like a gentleman, but he said straightforwardly: "It's too uncomfortable to drink tea, and it's oily."
Yuzhu couldn't help but smile. Since Cha Siting was happy to mingle with the students, he had nothing to say and directly invited everyone to sit down.
When we arrived at the flower hall, naturally Zha Siting took the seat, accompanied by Yuzhu, and the other three sat aside.
Zha Siting is a typical Zhejiang native. When he saw the steaming copper pot, he asked curiously: "What is this?"
Yuzhu smiled and introduced: "This thing is called a copper hot pot. Because the students are particularly greedy, they specially ordered it to be made of brass."
Yu Hongtu, who is also from the south, interjected and asked: "There is so much hot water in this pot, but there is no mutton. Could it be that it can't be cooked fresh?"
Yuzhu heard what he meant. If the mutton pieces were cooked now, it might be too late.
"To be honest with you, the mutton has been cut into thin slices. Hold it with chopsticks and rinse it in boiling water for ten times before eating."
Seeing that no one understood, Yuzhu simply ordered his servants to put out all the ingredients for shabu-shabu.
In order to let everyone understand the method of shabu-shabu, Yuzhu simply stood up and demonstrated it himself.
Yuzhu specially used serving chopsticks and explained in detail while operating.
"Mr. Yokoura, dear friends, what matters when eating hot-pot meat is its original flavor. Look, this is a copper pot over charcoal fire, with a clear soup base. Add green onions, ginger slices, Sichuan peppercorns, and a few dried shiitake mushrooms.
Dried mushrooms, then add boiling water, and the bottom of the pot will be crystal clear."
"Here, there are three auxiliary ingredients in this small bowl, Liubiju's sesame sauce, Wang Zhihe's soybean curd sauce, and chive flowers. These three are essential."
"This small bowl is filled with braised shrimp oil. I must introduce it here. This is a must-have sauce for eating hotpot mutton. The main ingredient is the fermented juice of black shrimp, and the auxiliary ingredients are dried chili peppers, sesame oil, and green onions.
, cumin, cloves, star anise, sesame, ginger, garlic, etc."
As Yuzhu introduced it, he secretly regretted that onions have not been introduced to China yet, so they can only use green onions for the time being.
"This is pickled sugar garlic. I will eat a few slices of meat later, and then just a clove of sugar garlic will make my mouth wet. Sweet, spicy, and fragrant are intertwined. It is extremely delicious..."
Yuzhu picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of mutton as thin as paper, rinsed it ten times in the boiling water in the copper pot, dipped it in two small bowls of sauce, and stuffed it into his mouth. Because Yuzhu explained it very carefully, everyone understood it at a glance, and everyone used chopsticks to rinse the meat.
"Well, it's delicious, so delicious."
“Extremely delicious.”
"Tender, fresh, spicy, sweet, great."
Everyone ate very comfortably, so the thinly sliced mutton was served one plate after another.
I didn’t drink much of the top-quality Zhuangyuanhong, but I consumed more than twenty plates of mutton-shabu-shabu.
"This sweet garlic is particularly appetizing." Yu Hongtu is a typical Zhejiang person who loves sweetness as much as his life.
Zhang Tinglu is from Anhui and has a spicy taste. He pointed to the dried chili peppers in the braised shrimp oil in front of him and said with a smile: "This thing is very good."
Wu Sidao was from Shaoxing and loved flower carvings. He raised the wine glass in his hand and praised: "What a fine wine."
But Zha Siting stared at the thin slices of mutton, frowned and asked Yuzhu: "Can An cut it so thin?"
Yuzhu put down the wine glass in his hand, stood up, and explained: "The house that the disciple rented is the property of a local wealthy family. The wealthy family dug a deep cellar under the house and stored a lot of money."
There are few ice cubes. Put the mutton in the ice cellar, freeze it overnight, then cut it with a knife, and it will be as thin as paper."
"Oh, that's it." Zha Siting suddenly realized, thinking, Yuzhu really knows how to enjoy life.
This mutton meal made everyone happy and comfortable, full of wine and meat, not to mention moisturizing.
The host and guest parted happily.
A few days later, Qingtai sent someone on a fast horse to deliver the message. He had already rushed six hundred miles to deliver the memorial, impeaching Wu Zheng's biological father, Wu Zhixian, for committing a murder and trying to assassinate his subordinate Xiaoqiu School.
The Manchu generals stationed in various places shouldered the important task of monitoring Han officials. They could not be appointed unless they were trusted Eight Banner confidants by the imperial court.
So far, there has been no precedent for the court to reject the case where a senior official in a feudal territory has submitted a memorial to impeach a subordinate within his or her jurisdiction.
Because as long as the court rejects it, it means there is no trust. Then, because the prestige of the feudal official has been seriously damaged, the only way to go is to take the initiative to petition for apology.
To put it bluntly, it was a choice between the two. The imperial court would either give up acting as General Jiangning Qingtai, or give up the seventh-rank Wuzhi County.
Isn’t it obvious how the imperial court will choose?
In this way, Wu Zhixian, Wu Zheng, and their whole family will be completely finished.
Yuzhu has always been a cautious person, so he only asked the messenger to bring a message back to Jiangning, telling his eighth uncle Qingtai three words: Got it.
If a person who wants to be an official cannot keep his mouth shut, he will fall into trouble sooner or later.
A special feature of Jiuhua Academy is that students in Class A take exams every ten days. Those who fail the exam three times in a row will be sent home to reflect for half a month.
According to Yu Hongtu's gossip, all students who were sent home as punishment were severely punished by their elders at home.
After spending more than half a month together, Yu Zhu has already seen that Yu Hongtu is indeed a warm-hearted guy who can't keep his mouth shut.
In this cannibalistic society, having a big mouth is definitely not a good habit.
It's just that Yu Zhu has not known Yu Hongtu for a long time, and the relationship is not deep enough. I can only wait for a suitable time in the future to persuade him.
Life in the academy is simple and fulfilling.
Yuzhu lives a life of two o'clock and one line of work every day. Going from the residence to the academy, and then from the academy to the residence, it is very similar to the scene when he was in high school.
Different from Sijiu City, at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain at the end of March, some people's farmland was already full of cabbage-shaped rapeseed flowers.
Different from the north, the land tax in the south of the Yangtze River can be mulberry and hemp, rice, silver, or vegetable oil.
Because of the high economic value of oil extraction, savvy farmers or landowners will allocate a certain proportion of low-grade fields or dry land to plant rape flowers.
It is said that Yu Hongtu's aunt married into a wealthy family in Dantu County, Zhenjiang Prefecture. He would go to his aunt every two months to greet her.
Who would have thought that for some reason, Yu Hongtu accidentally fell and injured his right leg while climbing a tree at his aunt's house.
After Zhang Tinglu learned the news, she found Yuzhu and Wu Sidao and discussed going together to visit Yu Hongtu who was recovering from his injuries.